Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Act Of 2001
Archived Information
Focus:
Certification Reform
Professional Development
Compensation Strategies
Recruitment Ideas
Certification Reform
Reduce Barriers and Increase Standards
Current License requirements are
different for each State
Routes to being licensed
Traditional College of Education
Alternative
Post Bachelors’
Career Changers
Retirees
Advantages of Alternative
Certification
People coming into teaching through
alternative routes tend to be older, people
of color, more men, have academic degrees
other than education, and have experiences
in other occupations.
Early data from several states indicate that
individuals entering teaching through
alternative routes have higher retention
rates than those entering from traditional
college based programs.
Different types of Alternative
Routes to Certification
Internship
Under Cincinnati’s new knowledge- and skills-based pay plan, teachers will advance
through five levels of professional achievement, earning salary increases based on
performance.
Apprentice
Salary: $30,000
Teachers who fail to advance to Novice within two years are terminated
Novice
Salary: $32,000–$35,750
Must be rated 2 or better in all performance and skill categories (on a scale of 1–4)
Teachers who fail to advance to Career within five years are terminated
Career
Salary: $38,750–$49,250
Must be rated 3 or better in all categories
Advanced
Salary: $52,500–$55,000
Must be rated 4 in two categories
Accomplished
Salary: $60,000–$62,000
Must be rated 4 in all categories
Out of Country
Washington State has been recruiting
teachers from Spain to address its
need for bilingual teachers
Recruiting Ideas continued…
Housing
The Santa Clara Unified School
District recently completed
construction of a 40-unit apartment
complex called "Casa del Maestro,"
which provides affordable housing to
qualified teachers.
Recruiting Ideas continued…
The University of Massachusetts-Boston
plans to offer free graduate education for
prospective teachers in exchange for a
commitment to spend three years in a local
urban classroom.
UMass-Boston also plans to participate in a
statewide effort to recruit prospective
teachers from the ranks of studious high-
schoolers.
Recruiting Ideas continued…